Featured Digital Release: TARHU CONNECTIONS, Ros Bandt (2016)

Ros Bandt has created a stunning double album of original  sound works fusing old and new,  east and west influences with her cross- cultural modern Australian spike fiddle, the tarhu. This extraordinarily resonant instrument probes 6 world heritage sites in Europe and the Pacific, accompanies poetry in ancient Greek,  Persian and Maltese, and connects with artists from China, Vietnam, Thailand, Turkey, the US, Greece, Crete, Germany,  Australia, Thailand, and Samoa. She investigates the environmental issues of global warming in the arctic, water usage, fishing and farming ethics, and the biosphere reserves of America. The connections trace back to the worlds oldest bird, the lyrebird and the longest continuing culture on earth in Australia. Ros Bandt is at once a composer, sound artist and skilled musician, as at home in the concert hall, the gallery, the electro-acoustic studio, the internet or the bush as these albums show. The works created over a decade interpret each acoustic space individually, from improvised solos and duets to elaborate electro-acoustic symphonies and award winning multi- channel works remixed.  But it's the sonorous worlds she creates that are so worth the deep listening they invite. 


PURCHASE CD RELEASES FROM THE HEARING PLACES CATALOGUE
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TARHU CONNECTIONS (2016)

Ros Bandt has created a stunning 2 CD set of original  sound works fusing old and new,  east and west influences with her cross- cultural modern Australian spike fiddle, the tarhu. This extraordinarily resonant instrument probes 6 world heritage sites in Europe and the Pacific, accompanies poetry in ancient Greek,  Persian and Maltese, and connects with artists from China, Vietnam, Thailand, Turkey, the US, Greece, Crete, Germany,  Australia, Thailand, and Samoa. She investigates the environmental issues of global warming in the arctic, water usage, fishing and farming ethics, and the biosphere reserves of America. The connections trace back to the worlds oldest bird, the lyrebird and the longest continuing culture on earth in Australia. Ros Bandt is at once a composer, sound artist and skilled musician, as at home in the concert hall, the gallery, the electro-acoustic studio, the internet or the bush as these CDs show. The works created over a decade interpret each acoustic space individually, from improvised solos and duets to elaborate electro-acoustic symphonies and award winning multi- channel works remixed.  But it's the sonorous worlds she creates that are so worth the deep listening they invite. 
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33.00    
BIRD SONG - TRIO AVIUM (2015)

​Birdsong has inspired composers from medieval times to the present day. Led by internationally acclaimed sound artist and composer, Ros Bandt, this project brings together the sounds of local box ironbark birds together with European birdsongs from Couperin to Biber and from the troubadour Bornelh to Blavet. Performed by Trio Avium, Birdsong will premiere at the 2015 Castlemaine State Festival with Ros Bandt (recorders, soundscapes), Vienna-based baroque violinist Cynthia O’Brien, and Ruth Wilkinson (recorders, viola da gamba). As a modern take on birdsong, this project includes the first recording of the well known and much played Flight, Ruth's Magpie Remix and Fratta, a new piece for Cynthia telling the story of how the baby kestrels abandoned in her house in Fratta were saved. Trio Avium plays on the finest baroque instruments including recorders from the nearby workshops of Fred Morgan and Jo-anne Saunders.

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25.00    
 
Jaara Jaara Seasons (2013) Ros Bandt

Lunched in November 2013, Hearing Jaara Jaara is a digital acoustic sanctuary of Jaara Jaara box ironbark woodlands, North Central Victoria, Australia. Created by Sound Artist Ros Bandt with the kind permission of Uncle Brien Nelson, Jaara Jaara elder. Visit the official Hearing Jaara Jaara 2013 website here. This website is a digital sanctuary for listening to country in a box ironbark  forest in Central Victoria Australia over the course of a year, 2013. Listening observations are recorded and shared  globally here. This habitat is at once a sound lab and poetic inspiration for soundscape composition and  public performance. This Jaara Jaara place is 55 acres of  land for wildlife country with a checkered history of pastoralism, gold, hobby farm and native bush. Over the past 20 years it has been land for wildlife and left to regenerate free of intrusion with the result of regeneration of the box ironbark habitat. It is a natural sound sanctuary.
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blue gold / rivers talk - ros bandt / leah barclay (2012)

BLUE GOLD is an electroacoustic work for cello and clarinets, sculptures and digital colour field and moving imagery. It investigates the delicate balance between wet and dry, hugros, xeros, symbolised in the colours of the title BLUE GOLD. The performers, cello (wet) and the clarinets (dry), navigate their way through the electroacoustic sound fields sourced from the Southern Ocean underwater recordings, aeolian harps in the arid Mungo desert,  flash storms in the bush and the wetlands of the Otway Ranges. 

 RIVERS TALK is a new collaborative radiophonic work on Australian river ecology, a joint mix of river culture from the Murray River in Mildura, Victoria and the Noosa River in Queensland. RIVERS TALK dissolves the dense local sonic profiles from the artists' solo works Voicing the Murray (1996) and Confluence (2005) in a dynamic profile of continuing issues surrounding river care and the sensitive man/nature relationships.
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tracings - ros bandt / johannes s. sistermanns (2012)

Bandt and Sistermanns performed “A Global Garden for Percy” together in separate hemispheres at the same time through the medium of the global digital bridge for simultaneous international broadcast at “The Listening Room” of ABC Radio Sydney and online for the Melbourne International Festival (Goethe-Institut Melbourne) out of the Grainger Museum Melbourne and the Music Academy Frankfurt. They developed “Sonic Blue Red Tracings”, a multi-media performance work during a residency at University of Wakayama /Japan a sound art performance work using paper and hair-dye. In 2006 ABC Radio commissioned “BYOS Bring Your Own Sounds” a collaborative composition of unexpected sounds from both composers. This CD “traces” the processes, of each work, the tracing and designing of sounds which can be seen and heard from the maps, score and performances. The emergent CD “Tracings” embodies these shared concepts, ideas and sonic structures created by these award winning artists.

Read a feature article about this project in Resonate Magazine here
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transient landscapes - leah barclay (2010)

Transient Landscapes is a collection of works from the installation Sound Mirrors by Leah Barclay. Sound Mirrors is an immersive environment that responds to significant rivers across the world. Throughout 2009 and 2010 Leah Barclay traveled through Australia, India, Korea and China capturing the sound of rivers and their surrounding communities. The resulting work is an ephemeral experience that slides through vivid landscapes and rich cultural traditions. Sound Mirrors was selected as one of four national projects for the Australia Council’s HELM-Arts Award. HELM is an initiative of the Queensland Conservation Council that recognises innovative work at the intersection of art, science, technology and the environment. 
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black falcon - erdem helvacioglu / ros bandt

Black Falcon is a contemporary lament for an endangered species, the black falcon. On this album, Ros Bandt expands the limits of cultural identity and collaboration by playing her longneck instrument, the tarhu, which was created by the famous Australian luthier Peter Biffin while Erdem Helvacıoğlu plays the electric guitar along with live electronics.

In the seven tracks, they use an improvisation technique they call “Momentary Composition” which allows them to create a strongly atmospheric and dramatic soundscape. The album has musical elements of many genres like new music, ambient, electro-acoustic, modern jazz.  Black Falcon is a cinematographic piece of work, an arresting listening experience.

The recording of  the “Black Falcon”album was done in Istanbul at the ITU MIAM studios by Can Karadogan. The album was edited and mixed by Erdem Helvacıoglu and mastered by Pieter Snapper at the Babajim Mastering Studios, Istanbul.
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Isobue - ros bandt (2008)


This is a double CD of Ros Bandt's evocative music and intoxicating sound creations. It is inspired by and celebrates the Japanese Sea Whistle, the Isobue, an endangered sound of the Ama free divers who live in harmony with the ocean in their sustainable fishing.

​Sea Folk Voices is instrumental music for koto, psaltery, flutes, and piano with soundscapes. Shima: 8 sonic haiku for Kumi, radiophonic acoustic poems in English and Japanese. Iso Nageki, Sea Lament, a reflective meditation simulating the underwater sonic world of the divers, and composed originally in 5.1 surround sound. It's a plea to mind the ocean. Ama no Isobue is a short electroacoustic soundscape. This exquisite music was made on Ros Bandt's ABC Radiophonic artist's residency.
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other featured releases

hearing place

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Ten sound artists and composers from around the world respond to notions of place. Featuring binaural sound, electroacoustic composition and field sound recordings, Hearing Place journeys the environment and that of our internal response. The Australian Sound Design Project in association with Move Records is proud to announce the launch of Hearing Place, an audio CD with works by 10 artists from around the world. The pieces respond to notions of place from a variety aesthetic viewpoints and methodologies. The works range from classic electroacoustic and soundscape compositions through to pure unedited field recordings. Ten works journey the acoustic environment and that of our internal response and provide unique insight to each locale.
The composers include: Petri Kuljuntausta (Finland), Samuel Pellman (USA), Christopher DeLaurenti (USA), Jon Drummond (Australia), Aaron Ximm (USA), Greg Hooper (Australia), Viv Corringham (United Kingdom), Pierre Thoma (Switzerland), Gabriele Proy (Austria) & Michelle Nagai (USA).
More information and purchase here

sonic archaeologies (2003)

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A new CD of Ros Bandt's works including Mungo, representing archaeology of the land and Thrausmata, an archaeology of text. These award-winning compositions were created in the studios of West Deutsche Rundfunk, Cologne.
more information and purchases here

improvisations in acoustic chambers

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(1981) Environmental composer Ros Bandt first vinyl LP is now available on CD. She uses the sonorities of man-made chambers — a water tank and a wheat silo. A bamboo flute, recorders, a lute, and the human voice reverberate in large acoustic chambers. It may sound electronic, but is in fact entirely natural. more information and purchases here

stack (2001)

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In stack, composer and sound artist Ros Bandt brings to life the inner and outer sonic possibilities gleaned from the massive city stack, a fifty-five metre chimney stack designed to extract fumes from the new CITYLINK tunnel in the heart of Melbourne's underground.
more information and purchases here

footsteps (1993)

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The sound of feet traversing the earth's surface is a reminder of the impact that location has on our lives. You will never have heard anything quite like this amazing journey.
more information and purchases here